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What up man? We're back

Ah what up? Fancy meeting you here

Yeah what up man, how you been?

Been good, yo sit down man

Time to start

Oh yeah?

Peace, peace, peace

My name is Justice Allah

I way to New York my way of my old earth

(That means mother)

My father came here from Haiti about 40 years ago

My father did not teach me his language

I barely knew him as my father

He is like the devil in that he gave me nothing

Why's he like the devil?

Because he avoided me since I was a little boy

Why do you not seek him out now that you're a grown man?

Because my mother gave me food for thought and belly

Does this have anything to do with the above question?

I didn't need him to acquire the knowledge of myself

What is the knowledge of your self?

I own self is a righteous god

Are there any gods other than righteous?

I beg your pardon, I never heard of one

After all that degree ain't hard

Cause if you ain't righteous how you supposed to be god

Another question you might have no doubt

How does god on his album cover looking knocked out?

For me it's simple and plain

Let me explain

It's symbolic to the fact I've been through some things

I was tripping to taking no ass whooping literally I'm just trying to show

You my pain

Cause life imitates art like even before I had kids naming my best album

The best part

The life of this artist was drawing kind off dark

But darkness accentuates the light's spark

To reveal there's room full of powder keg

That explodes into all of these sounds

So visually that was me knocked out

Musically this is me getting up off the ground

I use the assault and battery to energize

And set sail on a whole nother enterprise

Boldly go where MCs are scared to

Man up in ways boys ain't prepared to

Take life's hardest hits one the chin

Wife the blood off my cheek and begin again

So why these rappers fantasize and pretend

This just shows you art imitates life now and then

How many records have your released as J Live?

A little over five

How many records have you sold combined since your first album?

Approximately 100, 000

Do you mean to say that the millions of people

Who love hip-hop aren't aware of your music?

Yes sir

I can hardly believe that unless they were blind, deaf and dumb

By popular culture since they were babies

Can a label fool J Live?

No not nowadays

Do you mean to say the labels will fool J Live in the ten years?

Yes

The labels made the interpretation I'd receive gold for my labor

More than I could earn in my own company

Then did you receive gold?

No

The labels disappeared

And there was no one there to speak my language

Then what happened?